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CLOSURE’s humanistic approach lends a heroic quality to a man’s odyssey through limbo. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social on Michał Marczak’s documentary.

Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune Messiah closes out his trilogy of films this December. Check out the final trailer for DUNE: PART THREE.

Five films, including ALL OF A SUDDEN and THE INVITE, lead this year’s Gotham Film Awards nominations. tinyurl.com/4dkp32jf

The directors of Free Solo return to extreme mountaineering in EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE, a documentary whose awe-inspiring footage raises thorny questions about filmmaking ethics. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/3fcb9dkf

“It’s an intimate chamber piece between two people, with the ghost of a third one, against a massive, epic historical landscape.” Read our interview with Paweł Pawlikowski about FATHERLAND and what value he thinks art has to offer a polarized world. tinyurl.com/mua9n9jx

Marie Kreutzer’s GENTLE MONSTER fails to convey the sobering disorientation that comes with realizing you never truly knew someone you loved. Read Kenji Fujishima's review.

DIIV's 'ZIRP!' is a bold swing but perhaps not the one the band needed. Read our review.

Criterion’s release of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN, available Tuesday, attests to the director’s commitment to making the film “handmade by humans, for humans.” tinyurl.com/3tap4jpt

Released on this day 20 years ago, Taylor Swift’s debut created the blueprint for the artist’s pop instincts and infamous fixations.

CHRISTIANE F., Uli Edel’s harrowing tale of addiction and despair from 1981, has lost none of its feverish, raw power. Now available on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/4au8bdz6

BUNKER’s exploration of an alienating modern world doesn’t get much more granular than its broad-stroke outline. Read David Robb's #LFF review of Florian Zeller’s latest.

In CLAYFACE, Gotham takes on the atmosphere of active malevolence it so often exudes in the comics. Read @jakecole.bsky.social's review.

As much fun as it has depicting The Sun’s rough-and-tumble early days, Danny Boyle's INK struggles to connect that history to the paper’s eventual transformation.

FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE, an RPG of craterous lows and wondrous highs, gradually coheres into a work of compelling theatricality and mechanical intensity. Read @nivmsultan.bsky.social's review.

WICKER is a thrilling rarity for how it marries childlike sincerity with a story whose themes are adult in more ways than one. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

CHRISTMAS AT THE KRINGLES’ plotting is haphazard, its humor is cheap, and its gore comes too late to matter. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.

Anton Corbijn’s A TALENT FOR MURDER understands not just Ripley’s appeal but the compulsions that power the character.

Shabazz Palaces's 'It's a Style Sport' transforms a lifetime of flyness into a moral code, then puts it on trial. Read our review!

Jon Robin Baitz’s cleverest ruse may be blaming his characters for the the stifling aridity of OTHER DESERT CITIES, whose revival is now running at the Hudson Theatre.

Whether working as reporter or soldier, Samuel Fuller bore witness to the moment. Read Keith Uhlich on the films collected on Criterion’s Eclipse set THE FIRST FILMS OF SAMUEL FULLER, now available on Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/azycuv3v

Taika Waititi’s KLARA AND THE SUN is a faithful adaptation that nevertheless strips away everything insightful and affecting from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. #LFF

Check out @justinofclark.bsky.social's preview of Nintendo's upcoming remake of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME.

Travis Knight's wonderful stop-motion feature WILDWOOD isn’t afraid to have its characters grapple with real-world darkness and complexity. #LFF

For all of Linda Cardellini’s efforts, Peacock's 'Friday the 13th' prequel, CRYSTAL LAKE, is never in danger of getting too real. Read our review.

Todrick Hall's MIDNIGHT, now running at the Daryl Roth Theatre, is a euphorically maximalist and refreshingly innovative musical.

Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan have dropped the music video for their "Expectations" remix, featuring David Byrne as master of ceremonies.

A feast of vivid textures and quietly heightened soundscapes, Jonathan Demme’s horror masterpiece THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS remains as unsettling as ever in 4K. Available Tuesday on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Criterion. tinyurl.com/dfza57kz

MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE offers a beguiling look behind the curtain of a film’s making, and doubles as a poignant last collaboration between Eleanor and Sofia Coppola. tinyurl.com/9xfc47u5

The Avalanches's 'No Bad Memories' transforms obsolete technology and advertising jingles into a euphoric exploration of nostalgia. Read our review!

A GHOST IN YOUR EAR's sound design elevates the sonic scares and creates an immersive, insular world of words. Now running at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre.

The directors of Free Solo return to extreme mountaineering in EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE, a documentary whose awe-inspiring footage raises thorny questions about filmmaking ethics.

Angel Gómez Hernández’s CRAWLERS finds no shortage of places for spiders to lurk and wrings real suspense from most of the reveals. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.

WHALEFALL builds its what-ifs from a foundation of fact to better support its more poetic strains as it reaches its heart-swelling climax. Read @roccotthompson.bsky.social's review.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s shape-shifting YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING probes the gray area between the fabulations about Elizabeth Holmes and those by her. In select theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/s4a8fs9e

William and David Greaves’s living, breathing time capsule ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM feels like a miracle. In NYC theaters this Friday. tinyurl.com/k7bv5zzh

There’s a sense that Marvel's VISIONQUEST doesn’t know how to chew its way out of its own franchise’s trap. Read our review.

With CASTLEVANIA: BELMONT'S CURSE, Evil Empire has once again reimagined a largely dormant series with striking visual panache, kinetic side-scrolling action, and a wondrous, genre-twisting score. Read @nivmsultan.bsky.social's review.

Brad Bird's RAY GUNN true gumshoe tale, complete with duskily atmospheric locations, existential crises, and dialogue as smooth as well-aged whisky. #LFF

Fontaines D.C.'s 'Dopamine Chamber' doesn’t employ its nostalgic genre signifiers to say anything meaningful about contemporary malaise. Read our review.

See the 4K restoration of the definitive version of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS, an audaciously blunt, fever-dream portrait of religious-inspired sexual hysteria, starting this Friday. tinyurl.com/mtec5zbt

There are certainly pleasures to be found on 'She's the Best,' but Troye Sivan himself seems to get lost. Read our review.

“I understood the massive self-awareness that you have as an immigrant in a different country where you just feel different, or you’re aware of other people looking at your differences.” Read our chat with Sebastian Stan about his work in FJORD.

'Avatar: Seven Havens' boldly moves fans into the realm of post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Read our review.

OTHER MOMMY, for better and for worse, wastes no time with pleasantries. Read Charles Lyons-Burt on Rob Savage’s film.

Surprises abound in LA BOLA NEGRA, from the evocative to the dubious, but none is more provocative than its wish-fulfilling reimagining of a lost Lorca work. Read @certifieded.bsky.social's review.

A dramatization of the U.S.’s first meeting dedicated to climate policy in 1980, Tom McCarthy's A STATEMENT similarly embodies the tensions of balancing perspectives in a democratic system. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's #NYFF64 review.

Read our interview with Julia Loktev about her MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS project, what exile means to her, and more.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Julia Loktev’s MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE has the charge of an espionage thriller. The film opens Friday at Film Forum.

At its best, Luca Guadagnino’s ARTIFICIAL is an eerily funny tale of the seductions of what amounts to a queer vampire, whose monstrous creation could doom the whole race of mortals. #NYFF64

CLIVE BARKER’S HELLRAISER: REVIVAL entices with flashes of distinct personality only to reveal the overfamiliar rhythms of survival horror and the tyranny of video game crafting systems. Read @midfalutin.bsky.social's review.